AUSTIN, Texas — Thousands of Austin Energy customers were without power in southeast Austin early Monday, according to the utility’s online outage map.
The map showed seven active outages affecting 5,763 customers as of 6:32 a.m., with most affected in southeast Austin near Onion Creek Metropolitan Park.
The cause of the outages was not immediately known. CBS Austin has reached out to Austin Energy for more information.
The outages do not appear to be connected to a planned overnight power shutdown in downtown Austin and West Campus, which began at 11 p.m. Sunday as part of the utility’s Repowering Downtown project.
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That outage, expected to last about six hours, was scheduled to upgrade grid equipment and improve long-term reliability.
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.